“Two heads are better than one” As the Internet penetrates into more and more households across the globe, it becomes easier to take advantage of the minds of many. Harnessing the contributions of the Internet community is called “crowdsourcing.” Every major website uses crowdsourcing, though some use it more than others. There is a potential to […]
Mentor Focus: Jason Zook
With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. I first heard of Jason Zook years ago, when […]
Cooking with Books: Mama Dip’s Kitchen
While established cooks might scoff, cooking with recipes is the best way you can learn how to cook. All you have to do is find a recipe and follow the directions. Yes, you will make mistakes, but each time you work your way through a recipe you learn more about cooking. It is a […]
Best Websites for Recipes
For a cooking book to succeed these days, it has to be written by a celebrity or it has to be in a unique niche. With all the free recipe websites out there featuring thousands of recipes and vetted by amateur cooks at home, there is no place left on the market for general […]
Mentor Focus: James Altucher
With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. My wife once asked me, “if you could have […]
The Key to a Lasting Marriage
Most people will tell you that the key to a lasting marriage is compromise. I agree. But it goes deeper than that. Compromise is just one component of a bigger attribute. I’ve been married for more than 13 years. We’ve had ups and downs. Let me tell you, compromise alone would not have kept our […]
Create Your Own Music Hall of Fame
I know most of you don’t care about what music anyone else listens to. You might not even listen to music. But this post is not really about the music I listen to. It’s more about the process I go through to discover new music. How I Listen to Music I used to have thousands of […]
Favorite Travel Apps
I bought my first iPhone back in 2009 because I thought it would be useful on an upcoming West Coast road trip. Since then, new apps and new capabilities have come along to make the iPhone an essential piece of travel gear. Here is a list of apps I currently use when I travel: […]
Beer review sites
In 1979, there were only 89 breweries in the United States. Beer had been in steady decline in since its heyday in the 19th century. However, beer has been making a dramatic comeback in recent years. There are now over 6,000 breweries in the United States alone. Combine that with all the breweries in the […]
Language Translation Methods
Over 16 years ago, I wrote a Chinese-English translator in PHP. I learned a lot from the project (including a lot of Chinese slang). It was frustrating getting the encoding conversions right, but the end result was an understandable translation. I stopped working on it when Google rolled out their own translator, which appeared […]